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Disappearing pilots

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Between the 7/13 and 7/15/44 turns my opponant (KDonovan) and I each had about 30% of our pilots disappear. Saves are available. Who wants them?

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Between the 7/13 and 7/15/44 turns my opponant (KDonovan) and I each had about 30% of our pilots disappear. Saves are available. Who wants them?

Stock scn 15, ver 1.08.06

OK - send to me - rtrapasso @ gmail.com (no spaces)...

i will need passwords and exact description of where the pilots vanish.
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Between the 7/13 and 7/15/44 turns my opponant (KDonovan) and I each had about 30% of our pilots disappear. Saves are available. Who wants them?

Stock scn 15, ver 1.08.06

OK - send to me - rtrapasso @ gmail.com (no spaces)...

i will need passwords and exact description of where the pilots vanish.

I'm betting this is triggered by running out of pilot slots. But we will look and see.

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Saves sent. Thanks
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Make sure you hold on to the saves from before the pilots disappear, no way to go backwards without those.

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Saves sent. Thanks

OK -- i have RUPDs saves - but you didn't tell what exactly i am looking for... which pilots/where are they disappearing...

Also, i still don't have Kdonovan's turn and password...

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.. oops - double post...
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sorry about that...saves and password sent

here's a sample of pilots that are missing.....from my top pilots list before and after the bug. I underlined the pilots that went AWOL



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Ah - thanks for that - i didn't know if i was supposed to be looking in the pilot list, or for a specific squadron or what... this will make it considerably easier (esp. to see if the problem duplicates).

Since i am turning in for the evening now, i'll get to examine this tomorrow! [8D]
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Check out my fighter squadrons at Tokyo . Thats where most went missing from.

Most were only in their 50s with no kills so I don't have a nice list like Kenny.

Now I see why I am getting killed in A2A. [:D]

Edit: Wasn't Putnam still in a P-40 when he had his "Accident"?
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Ran the turns and i get pilots disappearing, but not the same pilots are you guys had vanish...

i am asking Joe if this is a duplicable bug or not... [&:]
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Ran the turns and i get pilots disappearing, but not the same pilots are you guys had vanish...


interesting....i think as Joe stated we probably ran out of pilot slots. Its mid-1944 in our game and we've only lost 23,000 planes combined, with a large portion loss on the ground

thanks for the work so far
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Can you guys each send me your War in the Pacific.exe files???

Joe suggested i check the files using your exe files and see what happens...

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i am also going to try re-running the turns, but this time booting in between each segment of your turns (instead of just at the start)... perhaps that will change things...
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Can you guys each send me your War in the Pacific.exe files???

Joe suggested i check the files using your exe files and see what happens...


Which sub forlder is this in?
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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Can you guys each send me your War in the Pacific.exe files???

Joe suggested i check the files using your exe files and see what happens...


Which sub forlder is this in?

main WITP folder - if you use default setup, it is in "c:/Matrix Games/War In the Pacific/" iirc.
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Sent
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Sent

errk - not received - i suspect my e-mail provider has bounced the e-mail because it had an exe file... but let's wait before trying a resend - i have an update...

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UPDATE:

well, i decided to try an experiment - i re-ran the turns, but REBOOTED after each step (i.e. - cold boot - load IJ turn - finalize - save - reboot - load Allied turn - finalize - save - reboot - load IJ turn - check and the Tokyo fighter squadrons)... and it appears the pilot loss goes away... i am going to work on it a bit more...
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FURTHER UPDATE:

THis is just strange: i checked the Japanese fighter units in Tokyo as you suggested after doing all the reboots - no pilots appeared to be lost (the get pilots buttons were greyed out).

i then saved the turn - rebooted - reloaded the save turn and bunches of pilots had disappeared... what the heck??? [&:]

The numbers were NOT the same as in your saved turn - i.e. one unit lost 11 pilots in your save, but only 6 pilots in the reload (and none were lost before the save...)
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